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Nature Is Not Against Them, Why Are We!

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Hey guys found this interesting piece of news on the internet! Shadows of the mountain big cats grow taller in ex-war zone! Just a decade after the spectacularly picturesque mountains of Kargil District in India’s J ammu and Kashmir saw rifle drawn soldiers in battle camouflages against the backdrop of flying machines and big guns, the relative peace since then has helped the same valleys and passes in the Himalayas shelter camouflages of some of the most elusive cats on earth. Two adult snow leopards (Panthera uncia) have been identified from pictures captured using infrared camera traps in the district by WWF-India’s field team led by researcher Mr. Aishwarya Maheshwari, a few kilometres from the line of control separating India from its neighbour Pakistan. This is the first time that camera trap pictures of snow leopard have been obtained from the Kargil District since they were installed here by the WWF-India team in mid-2010. This also happens to be the second p
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A Battle For The Tigers!

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Among the most charismatic creatures on earth and a powerful emblem of India, the Bengal tiger now stands on the brink of extinction. When tiger numbers dwindled to only two thousand in 1972, India responded by banning hunting, outlawing trade in tiger skins and creating safe havens through India’s Project Tiger. For a time tigers flourished, but then the situation worsened. Familiar tigers began to disappear, quantities of pelts were being offered through illegal markets and scientists questioned the accuracy of tracking and counting methods. Why didn’t this disturbing evidence provoke a fresh campaign to save the tiger? Efforts to save the tiger from extinction will be stepped up this year after the World Wide Fund for Nature placed the animal at the top its list of the most endangered species. Conservationists say there are just 3,200 tigers left in the world as the future of the species is threatened by poachers, destruction of their habitat and climate change. The wor
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Project Tiger :- India!

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The More You Know The Better! The Project tiger was launched in India in 1972 as conservation programme for saving the Indian Tiger Population. Some of the best examples of this programmes success can be seen in the national parks situated in the high Himalayan region, to the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans and the thorny scrubs of Rajasthan. But more wildlife conservation laws and awareness among people is still required to make Indian sanctuaries a safe haven for tigers. Project Tiger Scheme Project Tiger Scheme has been under implementation since 1973 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Government of India. The aim of Project Tiger is to ensure a viable population of tiger in India for economic, aesthetic, cultural and ecological values and to preserve areas of biological importance as natural heritage. Project tiger scheme includes wildlife management, protection measures and site specific eco development to reduce the dependency on tiger reserve resources. At the turn of t
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Latest News!

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Sumatran tiger poacher arrested in Indonesia SAVE THE TIGERS! Poacher caught with precious tiger skins and deer antlers in Sumatra. A team led by the Fauna & Flora International-supported Tiger Conservation Protection Unit (TCPU) and rangers from the Jambi Rapid Response Forest Guard arrested a 50 year-old man from Bungo district on the eastern edges of the Kerinci Seblat National Park in Jambi province in Sumatra today, seizing the skin of a  Sumatran tiger  as well as deer antlers. The arrested man was a large mammal poacher who had previously told undercover team investigators that he has poached and sold over 23 Sumatran tiger skins. The suspect and a second man were formally arrested and are being taken to the provincial capital of Jambi where local nature conservation agency officers will interview him about this case and previous poaching. Fauna & Flora International’s work to protect wildlife from poachers in Sumatra is crucial as there are less than 4
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Tiger Island!

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Tiger Island is a BBC Natural World documentary following Panthera’s CEO and tiger expert,  Dr. Alan Rabinowitz , as he investigates a controversial project to rehabilitate and release conflict tigers in Sumatra. Fewer than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild today, with just 400-500 Sumatran tigers remaining. To save them, we need your help. Make a contribution to Panthera’s Tigers Forever program now to ensure the future of the world’s endangered tigers. donate now About the Documentary On July 26 th , 2012, the BBC 2 Natural World documentary  Tiger Island  aired for the first time in the United Kingdom. This film follows Panthera’s CEO and world renowned tiger expert,  Dr. Alan Rabinowitz , as he travels to Sumatra to investigate a controversial project working to rehabilitate and release ‘conflict tigers’ back into the wild. Travel with Dr. Rabinowitz as he visits a ‘sanctuary’ for conflict tigers in southern Sumatra and learn what he discovers while monitoring tigers releas
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Tigers Forever!

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Ensuring Tigers Live in the Wild Forever As recently as one hundred years ago, more than 100,000 wild  tigers  ( Panthera tigris ) roamed the forests and grasslands of Asia. Today, less than 3,200 tigers remain, occupying just 7% of their historic range. These remaining tiger populations are seriously under pressure due to three main threats: Wild tigers are directly hunted both to meet the demands of the illegal wildlife trade market, and due to human-tiger conflict, where local people take retaliatory measures to protect themselves and their livestock. Tiger habitat is either being destroyed due to conversion for agricultural purposes and human development, or fragmented, leaving only isolated ‘postage-stamp’ size areas that are not sufficient for the long term survival of wild tigers. Tiger prey, like deer and wild pigs, have been overhunted by people either for subsistence or for sale on the black market. Lack of wild prey increases the chance of tigers feeding off of
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Predator Becoming Prey!

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Tiger as prey Tiger hunting on elephant -back, India, 1808. Stereographic photograph (1903) of a captured man-eating tiger in the Calcutta zoo; the tiger had claimed 200 human victims. The tiger has been one of the Big Five game animals of Asia . Tiger hunting took place on a large scale in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a recognised and admired sport by the British in colonial India as well as the maharajas and aristocratic class of the erstwhile princely states of pre-independence India. Tiger hunting was done by some hunters on foot; others sat up on machans with a goat or buffalo tied out as bait; yet others on elephant-back. [127] In some cases, villagers beating drums were organised to drive the animals into the killing zone. Elaborate instructions were available for the skinning of tigers and there were taxidermists who specialised in the preparation of tiger skins. Man-eating tigers Main article: Tiger attack Although humans
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